Buying second internet connection (Time Warner Cable)

[EBTwitts]

Some backstory here:
My roommate owns the current internet connection, and is being rather stubborn with upgrading the speed. Understandably on his part, he sees no problem since he does not game online. I, however, do a lot of online gaming. When he's watching youtube videos and whatnot, it lags me to hell with 800+ ms making multiplayer games unplayable for me.
I've asked if we could upgrade the internet connection speed, with me paying the difference on it, and he refuses. The only thing he has told me that I could do is do get the account switched over to my name and manage everything myself. (Why it matters who owns the account is beyond me, but whatever)
I have looked up buying my own connection, even ordered my own, but when I called to ask if there was anything I was required to do to have 2 separate connections, I was told that the order I placed would be denied and I'd have to go through my roommate.
Has anyone dealt with this at all? I'd really like to have my own line. Thanks guys!

 

[Wolfshadw]

It matters because if the account is in your name and a payment is missed, it goes against your credit report and not his. Having your own line would depend on ownership of the property and probably running a second cable line to the property.

-Wolf sends

 

[EBTwitts]

That makes sense as far as the account ownership goes. Never really thought about that, since I pay my bills on time.

As far as a second line goes though, it's an apartment that we're renting. I don't know if that helps at all.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Well, it doesn't help your cause being in an apartment. To run a second line, you'd need the approval of the person whose name is on the lease and the approval if the apartment manager/owner (which is extremely unlikely).

Another thing to remember about account ownership is that your roommate may be trying to rebuild his credit and not missing bill payments is an easy way to do that.

-Wolf sends

 

[USAFRet]

A cable internet connection (TWC) should not be sporting a ping of 800 ms, no matter what speed you are supposed to be getting from TWC.

Are you wired direct to the router, or WiFi?
What is the speed you guys are paying for?

 

[EBTwitts]

I'm hardwired into it. We currently have 15mbps speed. We weren't having any problems until about 3 weeks ago. Then all of a sudden, whenever he would be watching something on Youtube, Netflix, or some other streaming website, my ping would jump up. If he is not at home, I have absolutely no problems. As soon as he turns his computer on and starts watching videos (Which he does a lot), my ping rises up to 800+.

 

[Wolfshadw]

When was the last time you reset the modem/router (unplug for 30 seconds)?

-Wolf sends

 

[EBTwitts]

I believe he last did it a few days ago.

I'm pretty sure it's a bandwidth problem. For some reason it's giving video streams priority over everything else, whereas I don't think it was before.

I've tried it myself, Open TeamSpeak (I have it set to monitor my ping), open Youtube and watch a video. As soon as the video starts loading, my ping spikes up.

 

[USAFRet]

Different settings in the router?
If it used to work OK and now not, with the same bandwidth from the ISP....then either router settings, or some oddness outboard from your house/apt.

 

[EBTwitts]

He hasn't mentioned any changes to the settings, and has acted just as baffled as I am at the internet speeds at times. I don't have the admin password to log in, so I can't see any changes personally.